Is there a visible indicator that a VPN tunnel has been established with my corporate network? I have been working with my IT group to create a VPN tunnel on public wifi systems. I have been able to create the VPN tunnel, but the only way I knew the VPN was established was by going to a brower and either going to myipadress.com or an internal corporate website.

Are there any indicators/lights to show that the VPN tunnnel has been established? When I established the VPN tunnel, I got no confirmation dialog box and, to make it worse, I kept getting VPN password prompts even thought the tunnel was active.